UFN Featured Designer for April

Xenia Mara is an amazing Seattle jewelry designer who recycles vintage pieces and makes new brilliant pieces that are bold and exciting. She hand-produces each item, which are one-of-a-kind.

Check out Xenia's Q&A to learn more about how she creates her one-of-a-kind pieces!

Head on over to Xenia's website to get a 20% discount for the month of April on any purchases you make. Just mention the UFN article.

Would You Like Peanuts or Pretzels?

I just got an email from a local designer who creates "one-of-a-kind handbags that are constructed of high quality wool airplane seat cover fabric and lined with military jacket flight satin. Jumpseat bags are designed with simple 'classic' lines and unique materials including seat belt straps and buckle connectors. These retro bags with their vibrant colors and bold patterns are as traditional as they are trend-setting. The 'SeaShells' pattern, in Blue Lagoon and Tropical Sunset, were created exclusively from vintage aircraft seat fabric for the launch of jumpseatbags.com, released only in a limited quantity." WOW!

I sooooo want one!!! Dear Santa, I know it's only May but please send me a Jumpseat Bag in the lovely shade of blue! Preferably this one! I've been a good girl, I promise!

They're not cheap but I can't imagine they are easy to make. Plus, they are one-of-a-kind ya'll!! (the Southern accent comes out when I'm real excited...)

NW Women's Show weekend

It was a very long weekend spent at the NW Women's Show. We had a huge booth filled with 18 amazing local designers in the new Living and Eating Green section.

Sadly we came to find out the show was more along the lines of marketing your business versus selling product so it wasn't the best show for all the designers. However some had some big success! UFN handed out tons of cards and info so hopefully we'll get some residual traffic from the show.

Our friend, Devon, the President of the Fashion Group at Seattle Pacific University, helped us by sending us two fashion students who were so very helpful on Saturday!! Thanks ladies!

Check out our pictures from the show!

If you're a designer and were at the show we've created a survey... We'd love your feedback on how it went for you, etc...

I got my "Shop It To Me" email today!!

I signed up yesterday for the free alerts on sale items, I love a good sale!! I just got an email this morning and there were a few cute items in there:

From Bloomingdales
Cole Haan "Air Tatum" Thong
Reg $145.00
Now $101.50

Nanette Lepore for Keds "Nanette Sneaker"
Reg $60.00
Now $42.00

From Macy's
MICHAEL Michael Kors Printed Blouson Top
Reg $59.50
Now $44.63

Ok, so enought about that. The whole point of this blog is to talk about fashion but to put an emphasis on up and coming designers/handmade designers. On that note, I recently purchased t his adorable t-shirt from a designer out of Texas. I LOVE my shirt!! LOVE LOVE LOVE it!! The company is called Harrilu, check out her shop!

This is the shirt I bought!!

Unzipped

Today I went to Unzipped at Seattle Center with Regina and Melissa to check out some local and not so local designers. We gathered tons of business cards and pictures to use for the new website. I met some really cool designers and it made me even more excited to get the site up and running.

Skirts from Darbeka - so cute!!









Enameled jewelry by Alisha Louise